I drained the bottle last night and then filled it with more starter wort. This morning I whirled it and the foil was giving off a hissing noise and foaming quite a bit.
Gentlemen, I have a Yellow Rose yeast culture. :)
Regarding special yeast:
My wife and I bought a 4 pack of yellow rose at total wine this weekend. I noticed that the bottles have a very heavy sediment in the bottom. Anyone thought about/tried to harvest the yeast from the bottle yet?
Going to do a quick update, had it sitting in the keg and I'm going to update the recipe for posterity (on HBT).
I'm not big on the ginger aspect of Ruby Redbird (or any ginger beer for that matter), so take that with a grain of salt when I say I would do the following with this recipe. Also...
Here's the latest on my version of the bird:
Put this in secondary after a two week diacetyl rest (was busy) and now it's sitting in the keezer for a few days while I travel to Kansas. Took a nip from the hydrometer sample.
Super good, I really like the grapefruit and the hint of ginger. The...
Here's the latest on my version of the bird:
Put this in secondary after a two week diacetyl rest (was busy) and now it's sitting in the keezer for a few days while I travel to Kansas. Took a nip from the hydrometer sample.
Super good, I really like the grapefruit and the hint of ginger...
This is a "platinum strain" from White Labs that comes out every January-February. I don't really have a "house strain" per se, but I've been testing this out lately since I like the Helles that Andechs Monastery (impossible to get outside of the small area outside of Munich, Germany) does...
I think I'm going to do a five gallon batch in the spirit of something like this along with a few other recipes that I've found tomorrow. I have some loose citra, and some Magnum and Cascade pellets in the freezer so I'm building around that. I want to play up "honey" and "grapefruit" more...